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I don't think there's a real issue with an artificial virus, or artificially modified, so much as whether it escaped from a biolab that had samples vs. organic infection from contact with wildlife.

He made several tweets saying just that. And this article, obviously. Some of the language in the tweets is inflammatory, and frankly unhinged. He is continuing the same old playbook, literally nothing different about it. This is highly unethical behavior, a community of millions is not defined...

I don't think this has been answered but I think I remember a few times when Sharpe re-tweeted some of the LP stuff, Garner's too, I think. I don't think they see it as competition at all, it's pretty much identical as far as they're concerned. Whatever works, I don't think they're particularly...

It's an intelligence assessment, not a scientific one. Several departments contributed, then those assessments are collated and presented to the politicians. This is more about security analysis, diplomacy, etc. It's to guide policy. US government agencies are more open about it now because of...

For the record, I still regularly mostly see POTS, dysautonomia and OI dismissed almost universally with long haulers. If there has been a bit of positive change, it's so trivial it doesn't even make a bump. POTS is the easiest of them all, it literally can be objectively measured. Still can't...

Uh, what? Who "report on deconditioning"? Not even a proper sentence. I assume they mean "who report deconditioning", but that is very misleading as I almost never, and I really do mean almost never, heard a patient, pwLC or pwME, say that. In fact literally the opposite. Looking at the paper...

There's a reason marriage vows include "in sickness and in health". Family is always the first-line care for serious illness. If you're not ready for this, you're not ready for marriage. Not everyone is. But the reality of modern medicine is that it's still very inadequate, barely covers 10% of...

Yup. That's the thing, it's not just our BPS ideologues without scruples who would do this, there's a huge undercurrent populist culture that loathes any mention of COVID whatsoever. It's a marriage of convenience for both. Internet trolls and BPS ideologues roughly have the same message, they...

Yeah actually analog CPUs are slated to make a big comeback. Saw a great video on that not long ago, perfect to work with signal gradients, which works perfectly for neural networks, rather than mere on/off. Lots of R&D happening on this front. It will be niche and specialized at first but lots...

Extremely random and generic. Most are for cancer, interventions are all over the place. You could pretty much substitute with "have whomever do whatever works, I guess" and lose nothing of value. You pretty much have to accept a definition of "effective" that doesn't mean anything. Which is...

More targeted applications are starting to come out. This year will see an explosion, AI is likely to become a major arms race soon, comparable to nuclear energy. Huge sums will be put to stay ahead of the competition. This one looks pretty interesting, but continue keeping in mind this is baby...

It's established despite zero evidence of usefulness. One of Sharpe's paper: https://www.s4me.info/threads/the-effectiveness-of-inpatient-consultation-liaison-psychiatry-service-models-a-systematic-review-of-randomized-trials-2021-toynbee-sharpe-et-al.20568/ And since evidence is required for...

One of the few politicians who has and had the right messaging about LC from the start. It was announced this week that a US senator is retiring because of LC. He mentioned that 5-6 other senators also have LC, only one who has publicly mentioned it (Tim Kaine). There are 100 senators so that's...

Meanwhile on twitter a GP who understands LC and runs one of the better (private, I think) LC clinics mentioned that she has had stalkers, threatening comments and people trying to book appointments to confront her. Long Covid makes a lot of people irrationally angry and the possibility...

The use of an arbitrary alternative term, orthostatic tachycardia, is weird. There already are orthostatic intolerance, dysautonomia and POTS. It needlessly adds confusion to the issue, which I'm genuinely wondering if it isn't on purpose. This issue has been known for decades. Patients...

Pretty similar to the choice of long-term follow-up and how they were argued differently depending on ME or... I think it was depression? Different people, yeah, but it seems to be a standard in EBM, certainly the norm in BPS circles. It's almost as if their arguments are bespoke to what they...

My normal gait used to be ramrod straight and borderline powerwalking. I didn't just walked, I Walked. I used to walk a lot. And use the stairs for anything below 6 floors. Always skipped the automated stairs and lifts if I could. When PEM hits, I'm basically down to 90 year-old hunchbacked...

Repeat after me, class: correlation is not causation. It's just not. It never is. Causality is a different standard, much, much higher than mere correlation.

Source: a donkey? Or its other common name? This is very random and lacking any evidence. Depression is very poorly defined and heterogenous. Far more than ME. More even than fibromyalgia. And deciding that symptoms are part of depression is also arbitrary. Medicine can't even tell "depression"...